Science in the News
Archaeologist Deanna Jones couldn't believe her eyes as she hunched over a shallow pit dug next to railroad tracks in front of the San Gabriel
Mission...
from the Los Angeles Times (Registration Required)
posted on 2/7/2012
A 3-D printer-created lower jaw has been fitted to an 83-year-old woman's face in what doctors say is the first operation of its kind...
from BBC News Online
posted on 2/7/2012
With a gargantuan crack slowly splitting it apart, Antarctica's fastest-melting glacier is about to lose a chunk of ice larger than all of New York City,
scientists say...
from National Geographic News
posted on 2/7/2012
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